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		<title>Thesis vs book</title>
		<link>http://gettingpublished.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/thesis-vs-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 20:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my previous post, I asserted that ‘a thesis is not a book’ without offering any grounds for this claim. In this post I shall substantiate my claim by describing and commenting on the main differences between a typical thesis and a good scholarly book. Obviously, some theses are more book-like than others while a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gettingpublished.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2839326&#038;post=1505&#038;subd=gettingpublished&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking ‘thesis’ as ‘book’</title>
		<link>http://gettingpublished.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/rethinking-thesis-as-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 18:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have long argued that ‘a thesis is not a book’ and in my next post I shall outline my reasons why. Because of this, I have warned PhD students against the practice of ‘publication’ of their thesis by the home institution. Here, typically, the thesis is laid out and printed in book form (fancy [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gettingpublished.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2839326&#038;post=1499&#038;subd=gettingpublished&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tortoise and hare</title>
		<link>http://gettingpublished.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/tortoise-and-hare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 13:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald Jackson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academic publishing today]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While this may be blindingly obvious, there is quite a difference in sales of a typical history book (slow but steady) and of one focused on current affairs (“up like a rocket, down like a stick”). If you are writing such books, to avoid disappointment, you need to take this difference in sales behaviour in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gettingpublished.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2839326&#038;post=1490&#038;subd=gettingpublished&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doing just fine</title>
		<link>http://gettingpublished.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/doing-just-fine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 06:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of aspiring authors put their energies into getting published and assume the sales will look after themselves. They are wrong; as I have said before, all authors need to shamelessly self-promote themselves, especially in today&#8217;s economic climate. Nor is it just that you should never trust your publisher to do all the necessary [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gettingpublished.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2839326&#038;post=1467&#038;subd=gettingpublished&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making the most of social media</title>
		<link>http://gettingpublished.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/making-the-most-of-social-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 04:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald Jackson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Promoting your book]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many authors I know wouldn’t touch Facebook with a bargepole. Indeed, some of our authors won’t even be photographed let alone appear in an interview on YouTube to promote their books. This is a nuisance in marketing terms but until now I haven’t thought this to be a real problem; shyness doesn’t effect the quality [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gettingpublished.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2839326&#038;post=1458&#038;subd=gettingpublished&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From conference organiser to volume editor</title>
		<link>http://gettingpublished.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/from-conference-organiser-to-volume-editor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald Jackson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academic publishing today]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planning your book]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are someone who has organised a conference and is now being urged to edit the ‘conference volume’, you need to be wary of what you are getting yourself into. Overcoming the prejudice against edited volumes means that the progression from conference programme to printed book is not simple; it is more than a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gettingpublished.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2839326&#038;post=1441&#038;subd=gettingpublished&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Contributing to an edited volume</title>
		<link>http://gettingpublished.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/contributing-to-an-edited-volume/</link>
		<comments>http://gettingpublished.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/contributing-to-an-edited-volume/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What to do with that conference paper you presented recently? Chances are you are thinking to rework the text into a journal article. Sometimes, however, something else is on offer &#8211; you are invited to submit your paper for publication as a chapter in an edited volume arising out of that conference. Despite a prejudice [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gettingpublished.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2839326&#038;post=1439&#038;subd=gettingpublished&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prejudice against edited volumes</title>
		<link>http://gettingpublished.wordpress.com/2012/03/10/prejudice-against-edited-volumes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 06:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a widespread prejudice against edited volumes in the scholarly world, the idea being they are collections of unedited conference papers with a cover slapped on. In a few cases this is true, the culprits even found among the published lists of certain eminent academic presses. Such blatant inferiority is not the case for [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gettingpublished.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2839326&#038;post=1432&#038;subd=gettingpublished&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How much theory?</title>
		<link>http://gettingpublished.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/how-much-theory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, an author asked me for a bit of advice. I am slaving away on the book, but I need a bit of advice. I have changed the style from thesis to book. That&#8217;s no problem, but I am concerned about the theoretical frame. I have a whole chapter on what you might call ‘Critical [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gettingpublished.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2839326&#038;post=1424&#038;subd=gettingpublished&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free publishing?</title>
		<link>http://gettingpublished.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/free-publishing/</link>
		<comments>http://gettingpublished.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/free-publishing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 06:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I have been questioned by different young scholars who have been offered free publication of their recently completed PhD thesis. According to some commentators, this is at best vanity publishing, at worst a scam. But what if the approach is legitimate? Should you then accept the offer? Really, it depends on several things. If [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gettingpublished.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2839326&#038;post=1416&#038;subd=gettingpublished&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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